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  South Central Trains Ltd v Rodway [2004] IRLR 777 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Parental leave: Parental leave to be taken in one-week blocks

    Date:

    8 October 2004

    In South Central Trains Ltd v Rodway the EAT holds that a disagreement over entitlement to parental leave does not amount to a "reason related to parental leave" for the purpose of a complaint of being subjected to a detriment under s.47C of Employment Rights Act 1996 (leave for family and domestic reasons).

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  South East Sheffield Citizens Advice Bureau v Grayson [2004] IRLR 353 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Volunteers not "employees"

    Date:

    1 July 2004

    Voluntary workers were not "employees" as defined in s.68 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, holds the EAT in South East Sheffield Citizens Advice Bureau v Grayson (17 November 2003).

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  South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Anderson and others [2007] IRLR 715 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Meaning of 'same employment'

    Date:

    2 October 2007

    In South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council v Anderson and others [2007] IRLR 715, the Court of Appeal has held that employees and their comparators who worked at different establishments, but whose contractual terms and conditions were derived from the same collective agreement, were in the same employment within the meaning of s.1(6) of the Equal Pay Act 1970.

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  Southern Cross Healthcare Co Ltd v Perkins and others [2011] IRLR 247 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment tribunal had no power to construe written statements

    Date:

    13 January 2011

    The Court of Appeal has held that employment tribunals do not have jurisdiction to construe contractual terms and conditions contained or referred to in written statements of particulars of employment. 

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  Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine and another [2011] EWCA Civ 1565 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE: no need for contemplation of specific transfer for automatic unfair dismissal

    Date:

    23 January 2012

    The Court of Appeal has held that, for there to be an automatic unfair dismissal under TUPE, there does not need to have been a particular transfer or transferee in existence or in contemplation at the time of the dismissal. 

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  Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine and another EAT/0339/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE: Requirement for transferor to have identified actual prospective transferee

    Date:

    13 April 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, for a dismissal to be automatically unfair under TUPE, it is not necessary for the transferor to have identified an actual prospective transferee at the time of the dismissal. 

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  Spence and others v City of Sunderland Council EAT/1255/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Normal working hours: No obligation to provide non-contractual overtime

    Date:

    1 February 2000

    Employees whose contractual working hours were 39 hours per week but who, in practice, were required to work six hours' overtime made available to them to the extent of 45 hours per week were not guaranteed that overtime, so holds the EAT in Spence and others v City of Sunderland Council.

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  Spence v Intype Libra Ltd EAT/0617/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Spence v Intype Libra Ltd

    Date:

    8 May 2007

    In Spence v Intype Libra Ltd EAT/0617/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a failure to obtain and consult on a medical report before dismissing an employee does not in itself breach the duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.

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  Spijkers v Gebroeders Benedik Abbatoir CV 24/85 [1986] ECR 1119 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Spijkers v Gebroeders Benedik Abbatoir CV

    Date:

    31 December 1986

    In Spijkers v Gebroeders Benedik Abbatoir CV 24/85 [1986] ECR 1119 ECJ, the European Court of Justice ruled that Article 1(1) of the Acquired Rights Directive must be interpreted to the effect that the expression 'transfer of an undertaking, business or part of a business to another employer' envisages the case in which the business in question retains its identity.

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  Spring v Guardian Assurance plc and others [1994] IRLR 460 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Negligence: Duty of care owed to subject of reference

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    An employer giving a reference is under a duty to the subject of the reference to take reasonable care in compiling it, or in obtaining the information on which it is based, holds the House of Lords in Spring v Guardian Assurance plc and others.